Pleasant Valley Music Signs Natural Drift

Good news! Placerville’s own Natural Drift has signed with Pleasant Valley Music and their new recording, She Planted the Evidence On Me, has JUST come out on Squirty Records! Of course, PVM’s good buddy George Goodell plays banjo with the ‘Drifters’, and the good folks in the group have been friends with us for years. So it feels right.

 

Here’s a sound clip for your listening pleasure.

This news comes at an especially good time, as the “Drifters” have not only just released their debut recording, but they were also chosen from scores of good California bands as a California Showcase act at the California Bluegrass Association’s Father’s Day Bluegrass Festival in Grass Valley, CA, which takes place June 12-15 2008. Congratulations to the hot new band in town, Natural Drift!

Still Reeling from ROMP

Surfed by the International Bluegrass Music Museum webpage today and found this lovely piece. Turns out the good folks there at the IBMM have dedicated this year’s ROMP festival to ole Jakey. Check out these screenshots from their page:

Motivated Diablos

Hi folks,

Well, some nice news for today. Pleasant Valley Music old-time artist Mt. Diablo String Band is now a Squirty Records recording artist! Yesterday we had a visit from the band, consisting of ‘Meistro’ Harry Liedstrand (fiddle), Carl Pagter (banjo), Harry’s wife Cindy (guitar) and son Terrell (mandolin), Carl’s son Corbin (mandolin), and PVM’s own Matt Dudman (string bass), here at Pleasant Valley’s Squirty Records Studios to record the band’s first demo!

In just two short hours the band showed up, rehearsed, set up the studio, and laid down no less than 6 tunes. Matt engineered the session, adding that “It was one of the easiest sessions I’ve ever done, on the engineering side. These guys are old-time all the way. We just set up a couple of room mics and sat around and picked! There was no mixing or mastering to do! Just burn it to a CD!”

For a little taste of how it sounded listen to a clip here.

The session went so well that there was even talk afterward about moving toward actually doing a full length recording, so keep your eyes peeled for it!

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